I spent a few days with some nomadic camel herders in the Sahara in Morocco some years ago. Very nice people. They also drink very little - for good reason, as water is a scarce commodity. Mostly they drink green tea with mint. I had to pick some gear up from a nearby town, and used a western-style toilet. I remember noticing how my pee was a dark yellow, colour, so it formed a separate layer below the water in the pan. I felt perfectly healthy though.

The alternative health movement these days holds it as axiomatic that we should all drink more water - the body's many cries for water etc. So though Himagain's comments may seem like blasphemy to some, he is quite right about the Bedouin, so I wonder a bit whether drinking gallons of water every day, as I have in the past, is really necessary.

Best wishes,

Paul H



I wonder what a Bedouin would say to all this???  :-)
Davido, if you are - as it sounds - even more sedentary than most - how could you even think of drinking that amount of liquid - especially Gatorade+CS???? Of course, Americans are the most intoxicated people on the planet, and second only to Australians in meat eating, but the amount of liquids most Westerners take in per day is frightening. There is a weird belief that "lotsa water is betta" which I think must have come from the Cola companies, who knew that most people would want sugar in it "just for the taste". If you gave up all the sugar and salt it is amazing how little liquid you will want.

We used to have a hard time convincing Cancer-sufferers to stop drinking liquids. It is so conditioned into us that facts and intelligence are simply overwhelmed. Simple fact, FACT: don't drink with your meals. Not 20 mins before, not 20 mins after and you double the value of extracted nutrients from your meal.................. (commonsense?)

Himagain - Who REALLY understands - was brought up believing I had to drink gallons "because of the Oz sun". Then I went and lived with the Aborigines....... then I met Bedouins.............


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